[neindanke]

> Who are these people?

Ellen Pao, Harvard MBA. Job history was corporate attorney, other non-technical jobs.

Ajit Nazre, Michigan Tech PHD. Job history unclear. Google hits on him mostly indicate a skeezy character. If the BI article is credible, most startups including the ones in India have dropped him like a rock after the lawsuit came out.

> Why do they get all the money?

Good question. Most engineers fail to realize how critical all of them are. They fail to demand fair compensation for their time. Instead they treat pats-on-the-back, a beer bust, maybe a gifted $10 ticket to see a scifi movie as major rewards while their management takes the bulk of the compensation pie.

[cowsandmilk]

Ajit Nazre does not have a PhD from Michigan Tech, only a Masters.

He has a PhD from Technische Universität Hannover and an MBA from Harvard.

Ellen Pao has a JD from Harvard Law School in addition to her MBA.

[jkestner]

She also has an electrical engineering degree from Princeton.

[mattgrice]

I am curious what possible justification there could be for downvoting the above comment. Is the EE degree in question?

[jkestner]

I mentioned it specifically because the grandparent post emphasized her "non-technical" otherness.